Thursday, August 1, 2013

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by Hannah, the girl behind the stove

Hannah is a junior at a small liberal arts college in Minnesota. She is studying two majors with two concentrations: Asian Studies and a major entitled The Optimization of Health & Happiness that she is designing herself. According to her, she spends most of her non-academic time cooking and eating, or thinking about cooking and eating. She has been a vegetarian her entire life and a vegan since 2011.

If you are interested in learning about a plant-based lifestyle join her as she
cooks and eats her way toward optimal health and happiness.

My Pledge to the Readers of this Blog

The progress of social justice is slow and measured. Its growth depends on an increasing number of us becoming aware of the truth and consequences of our actions.

I believe that it is morally wrong to allow our wanton desires to interfere with the basic needs and interests of other sentient beings.

I believe the physical and psychological abuse – confinement, social deprivation, mutilation, genetic and reproductive manipulation, and profit exploitation – imposed by us on other animals is morally wrong.

I believe the suggestion that the exploitation of other sentient beings by humans can be achieved without cruelty, violence, or injustice is false and misleading.

As an advocate for all life, committed to compassion and justice, I refuse to take part in the exploitation of other sentient beings or to collaborate with those caught up in such injustice.

I pledge to do my best to live a life that conveys a clear, sincere and uncompromised message that is free of resentment, fear, exploitation, anger, cynicism, and manipulation.

Furthermore, I pledge to continue to support a broad range of nonviolent initiatives and programs that will hopefully one day eliminate the needless pain and suffering we inflict upon all the many wonderful creatures with whom we share this planet.